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Bottlenose dolphins off the coast of Wales have become abnormally murderous, according to concerned volunteers at a wildlife centre who last week watched three of the playful mammals spend 20 minutes ganging up on a porpoise.
“Although we were close by, they took no notice of us, intent on the attack,” researcher Milly Metcalfe told the BBC, recounting how the dolphins repeatedly pushed the porpoise underwater before throwing it into the air.

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Every time Gaza fisherman Rami goes to sea, the same thing happens: five nautical miles offshore, shots ring out and a voice over an Israeli loudspeaker demands he turn back.

TABUSINTAC, NEW BRUNSWICK — A recovery effort has resumed for two fishermen missing off New Brunswick’s northeast coast.
RCMP Const. Scott Messier says five search and rescue teams began combing shores for the men, aged 35 and 32, at 7 a.m. today.
Messier says an RCMP underwater recovery team is also searching the area where their fishing boat capsized.

KLEMTU, B.C. — A Japanese fisherman is to be reunited with his boat more than four years after a powerful tsunami hit his country and carried the craft to the shores of British Columbia.
Kou Sasaki arrived in Vancouver on Monday and later this week will be heading to the coastal village of Klemtu, where his vessel washed up in the spring of 2013.
Spirit Bear Lodge manager Tim McGrady said a hereditary chief’s son found the boat, which was in remarkable condition after its journey across the Pacific Ocean.

BENJINA, Indonesia (AP) — Hundreds of foreign fishermen on Friday rushed at the chance to be rescued from an isolated island where an Associated Press report revealed slavery runs rampant in the industry. Indonesian officials investigating abuses offered to take them out of concern for the men's safety.

MEXICO CITY — U.S. Navy-trained dolphins and their handlers will participate in a last-ditch effort to catch, enclose and protect the last few dozen of Mexico’s critically endangered vaquita porpoises to save them from extinction.
International experts confirmed the participation of the Navy Marine Mammal Program in the effort, which is expected to start sometime this spring.

All that British officials wanted to do was get everyday people excited about science by allowing them the chance to go online and vote on the name of a $300 million polar research vessel.
Now they’re faced with what former BBC radio presenter James Hand called a “very British” problem. Hand thought it would be “brilliant” to suggest the name Boaty McBoatface be added to the mix. And surprise, surprise: a lot of Brits agreed.

Veteran commercial fisherman Derek Morton describes it as an oceanic “flash mob,” a sudden swarm of California sea lions that descends upon commercial seine boats as they haul in their herring catch in the Strait of Georgia.
“That’s what it’s like. They show up fast, they’re there and when it’s done, they’re gone.”

Canada’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax jumped into action when it received word on Monday that a crew of nine fishermen from Newfoundland was on a sinking ship in the middle of the Arctic. As the crew left behind a $2.5-million fishing vessel, the Atlantic Charger, for an inflatable raft, several ships and planes were deployed to the scene. Admiral John Newton is commander of the Halifax Search and Rescue Region (as told to Alia Dharssi):